Comments on: Good News: Utah – The Happiest State

By: john f.

john f. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:06:20 +0000

I like where you’re going with this. Two things similarly come to my mind:

1. Will the same people who accepted the survey suggesting Utah was the most depressed state as accurate/reliable also take the results of this survey in the same way?

2. Will the people who adamantly argued (after accepting at face value, as described in 1) that the source or cause for why Utah was found to be the most depressed state by the survey in question was obviously the Church show consistency with that position and now argue adamantly that the Church is the reason that Utah is the happiest state according to this survey?

By: Kiko

Kiko — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:51:01 +0000

That’s funny! I also wonder if it matters when they survey people. I live in UT and I am extremely miserable during the very cold winter months.

I don’t mean it’s just a little bad, I really get depressed: the short hours of sun light, the skull cracking cold, the dirty snow that begins looking like big mounds of contaminated trash a few days after if falls so gracefully from the sky. Every winter I am saying constantly to myself: “this is it, I am leaving this cursed hell hole.”

Then during the spring and summer, I am very happy. Happier than in most other places.

By: David B

David B — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:23 +0000

Depression and happiness aren’t mutually exclusive. Maybe Utah’s the country’s most bipolar state?

By: Utah: Happiest : Mormon Metaphysics

Utah: Happiest : Mormon Metaphysics — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:17:41 +0000

[...] Utah is the happiest state (HT: A Soft Answer) [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:40:53 +0000

oops, 9 point spread, not 12. Utah’s number is at 69.2 and West Virginia is at 61.2

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:37:27 +0000

Of course I think this survey is rather shoddy. Not only is there only a 12 point spread between the best and the worst (in a scale of 1 – 100), but they don’t offer the margin of error for their numbers. If the margin of error is 3, then Utah could only be conceivably 6 points happier than the unhappiest state in the union. Shoddy work Gallup.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:31:26 +0000

so let me get this straight.

Utah is most depressed when a Republican is in office. Utah is most happy when a Democrat is in office.

Interesting…